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31st January 1990: McDonald’s opens its first fast food restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square

31st January 2026
Tagged as: Canada, Capitalism, Communism, Diet, Fast Food, Food, McDonalds, Restaurant, USSR

Although a standard hamburger cost the price of ten loaves of bread, some news outlets estimated that 30,000 people passed through the doors on the first day.

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31st January 1990: First McDonald’s opens in the USSR

31st January 2019
Tagged as: Canada, Capitalism, Communism, Fast Food, Food, Glasnost, McDonalds, Moscow, Perestroika, Soviet Union, USSR

On the 31^st January 1990, fast food chain McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square.

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31st January 1990: McDonald’s opens its first fast food restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square

31st January 1990: First McDonald’s opens in the USSR

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